Issue 70: Summer 2025

Fiction

In Glass

After she disappeared, leaving behind a band at the height of their popularity and a final album that would make Best Of lists for years to come, Julia Bryce went to Guam.

The Transmigration of Rabbits

The digital alarm clock on the dresser by Tallow’s head was dead.

Shimon's Trial

What’s there to say, camp was great, it was the time of our lives, it was borderline utopic.
Poetry

"Everyone is Sleeping" and "We Fuck"

I’ve been collecting multiplicities, chucking light into myself to see what catches fire, segmenting reality, ...

Complex conjugates

Strike Anywhere

from Alterbiographies

Essays

Queer's Park

There was once a bandstand in Queen’s Park.

Water Bird

I am pregnant with my second child and have found myself unable to write.
Interviews

For me, the reader is always at the table. Writing entails a double vision in which I’m both writing for myself – for what I think the story might be, for what I see, and for the kind of reader I am – and for what the reader needs to know and when.

"A Not-So-Secret Handshake": A Conversation with Elise Levine

“If you’re thinking this is one of those stories that go nowhere, where you don’t know where this is going – where I don’t know – rest assured, I’ve got this, the old head really is on straight.”
Reviews

A Many-Layered Record: A Review of Amy Ching-Yan Lam’s Property Journal

In Property Journal, Amy Ching-Yan Lam documents each time real estate, property, or housing haunts her life—her encounters, preoccupations, conversations—over a period of thirteen months.

Story as Elegy in Zane Koss’s Country Music

Let me tell you a story.